Greetings f minor
Whilst browsing around Google News, I found the following story:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1114004522617B251
Is it for real? !
Here is a shortened version of the story that another site allowed me to 'copy and paste' :-
??Ghost world
????Music lovers in Raleigh, N.C., are set to witness an out-of-body experience next month: A pair of long-dead piano legends will be putting on a show.
????Well, maybe not in the flesh. The music will be played on a grand piano that has been specially programmed to give a note-perfect, live rendition of vintage recordings made by Alfred Cortot in 1928 and Glenn Gould in 1962.
????"The piano will replicate every note struck, down to the velocity of the hammer and position of the key when it was played," promises British magazine New Scientist. ????
???? Compiled by Scott Galupo from staff and wire reports.
????22/4/05
Yup, apparently some technological wizard has programmed a grand piano to reproduce precisely (so it is claimed) two long-ago performances by Alfred Cortot and Glenn Gould. They promise every nuance of the performance will be reproduced. But assuming this is true, why do it ? Maybe (re the copy of the Cortot recording) modern technology would have some improvements over a 1928 recording ...but re GG ...Surely he took such care with the production of his recordings that what we hear from them is, as far as possible, exactly what he wanted us to hear. OK, the new 'ghostly' performance will have no humming, but for me at least, that would be a sad loss. And in any case, what if the piano itself is not an instrument that would have met GG's precise requirements?
The main story gives details of the type of piano used and also says that the Gould recording that will be reproduced is one that he made of the Goldbergs in 1962. Wow! Now its news to me that he even made a recording of the Goldbergs in 1962. Ive got the '55 and '81 recordings, and the Salzburg one ....but 1962 ???
Apparently the latest copy of the British New Scientist magazine has the full story. I'd better look out for a copy.
Kate
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